Litarcturus kexueiae Liu & Sha, 2015, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Liu, Wenliang, Sha, Zhongli
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Isopoda; Antarcturidae; Litarcturus; Litarcturus kexueiae; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5672113; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5672113

Litarcturus kexueiae sp. nov. Figs 1–5 Material examined. Holotype, adult male (total length, 13.8 mm, without antennae), MBM 240861, Okinawa Trough (27°40.300´N; 126°54.174´E), RY0231, depth 2115 m, bottom sandy mud, coll. Zhongli Sha, by Agassiz trawl, 23 April 2014. Description. Body (Fig. 1 A–B) length 13.8 mm. Eyes rounded, large and protruding, 0.36 of lateral length of cephalothorax. Body long, slender, pereonite 1 fused with head; dorsal transverse ridge between cephalothorax and pereonite 1. Preocular spines absent; supraocular spines long, slender and directed anteriorly, unarmed, not covering the eyes in dorsal view, about 3.0 times as long as diameter of eye. Further dorsal spines are lacking. All pereonites unarmed, with rough cuticle. Pereonites 1–3 of about same length and width; pereonite 4 longest, slightly narrower than pereonites 1–3, of about the same width as pereonites 6–7; pereonite 5 slightly longer than pereonites 4 and 6–7. Tergites of pereonites 5–7 with concave posterior border ... : Published as part of Liu, Wenliang & Sha, Zhongli, 2015, Litarcturus kexueiae sp. nov., a new deep-sea isopod from the Okinawa Trough (Crustacea, Isopoda, Valvifera, Antarcturidae), pp. 531-540 in Zootaxa 4013 (4) on pages 533-539, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/236981 ...